Ironing board attachment



Dec; 28, 1943. Y. R. DOUSKEY IRONING BOARD ATTAC HMENT Filed Ju1 '21, 1942 ATI'DRNEYS Patented Dec. 28, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE" 2,337,876 IRONING BOARD ATTACHMENT Yazah It. Douskey, New Milford, Conn. Application July 21, 1942, Serial No. 451,747 1 Claim. (01. 38-411) This invention relates to ironing board attachments, and its general object is to provide a device that is designed for supporting the depending portion of an article, such as a tablecloth, bed clothing or the like above the floor, while the article is being pressed, so as to prevent the same from becoming soiled or unduly wrinkled,

A further object is to provide a device that includes a trough like basket suspended from the board for disposal in the path of a ressed portion of an article, while pressing the remaining portion'thereof, and the device can be easily and expeditiously attached and removed with respect to the board, but casual removal or displacement is practically impossible.

Another object is to provide an ironing board attachment that includes removably associated parts, to take up minimum space in storage, and the device is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and extremely eflicient in use and service.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed-out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein.like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating one of my devices attached to an ironing board of the usual foldable type.

Figure 2 is an end view of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary detail view, illustrating the means for attaching my device to the board.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken approximately on line 4-4 of Figure 3, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the letter A indicates the conventional ironing board that includes a top and foldablesupporting structure B, including legs.

My device includes a pair of attaching brackets that are permanently secured to the under face of the top of the ironing board, a considerable distance apart and adjacent to one longitudinal edge thereof. Each bracket is provided with aflat elongated body I having openings therein for receiving screws or the like for fixing the bracket to the top.

Formed on the body and extending from one end thereof is a hook like resilient clamping shank 2 that is bent in substantially U-form and terminates into an outwardly flared end portion 3 for a purpose which will be later apparent. The brackets are fixed to the top so that the shanks thereof are directed toward the ends of the top, as shown in Figure 1.

The basket, as best shown in Figure 1 isin the form of an elongated relatively. narrow trough like frame having open ends and is preferably made from heavy or rod like wire to provide upper front and rear horizgntal bars 4 and 5, respectively, a lower rear horizontal bar 6 that parallels and underlies the bar 5, a lower intermediate horizontal bar I, and end bars 8, the latter having the ends of the horizontal bars welded or otherwise fixed thereto. The front upper bar 4 is disposed in a plane below the rear bar 5 andthe portions of the end bars, between the bars 4 and 6 are of arcuate formation, while the portions between the bars 6 and 5 are straight and vertically disposed, as best shown in Figure 2. A pair of vertical bracing bars 8 is also included in the frame, one adjacent each verti- -cal portion of theend bars and the bracing bars are fixed to and disposed between the horizontal bars 5 and 6.

The basket is suspended from the attaching or clamping brackets for disposal laterally of and below the top, but above and in proximity to the floor, and for that purpose, I provide a pair of hangers that are prererably made from heavy or rod like wire to provide depending portions Ill. The hangers from the lower ends of the depending portions are bent upwardly to provide short vertical portions ll paralleling the portions [0- and to form loops having the horizontal" bars 5 and 6 mounted therein. with the bar 6 resting on the blghts I2 of the loops. The upper ends of the vertical or upright portions H are formed with spiral like hooks l3 engageable with the depending portions II] for detachably securing the basket adjacent its ends, to the hanger, against undue endwise movement, as the bights l2 are arranged in the path of the end bars 8,.

as shown in Figure 1:

At the upper ends of the depending portions I0, the hangers are bent to provide arms l4 that are disposed at right angles to the depending portions, and the arms are coiled to provide eyes l5 midway their ends, receivingthe shanks 2 for detachably securing the hangers tothe brackets, it being obvious that the outwardly flared end portions 3 of the shanks facilitate app ying the eyes to the shanks and that the latter clamp the arms in bearing engagement with and transversely of the under face of the board, with the basket resting against a leg of the board, as best shown in Figure 2, thus casual removal or displacement of the device relative to the board is practically impossible.

The basket may be covered or lined with any suitable sheet material, such as fabric or wire cloth, to prevent the pressed portion of an article, particularly a narrow curtain or the like, from zontal bars.

From the above description and disclosure in the drawing, it will be obvious that as an article is being pressed, for example a sheet, it is moved transversely of the top of the board, and the pressed portion will naturally fall into the basket in soft folds without wrinkling or becoming soiled.

While I have illustrated one of my devices attached to the board, two maybe used, one on each side of the top, the device on one side being for the purpose of supporting an unpressed portion of'an article above the floor, while the device on the opposite side will receive and support the pressed portion.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

An attachment for an ironing board comprising an elongated trough like basket, a pair of hangers for supporting the basket in laterally suspended position from the ironing board, each of the said hangers having a relatively long depending portion fastened to the basket, a right angular inwardly directed arm formed at the upper end of the depending hanger portion, the said arm having its intermediate portion looped to form 9. depending eye, a pair of clamp members attached to the underside of the ironing board inwardly of one longitudinal edge, the said clamp members each having a flat body fixed to the board, an-approximately U-shaped portion projecting from one end of the body and off-set below the board, and an arcuately curved portion at the outer end of the U-shaped portion disposed so that the eye of each hanger arm is slidably removable from its clamping position bee tween the U-shaped portion and the underside of the board.

YAZAH R. DOUSKEY.

. CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION. Patent No. 2,557,876. December 2 19L 5.

YAZAH R. DOUSKEY.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered patent reqhiring cbrrection as follows: In the grant, I line 15, for "his heirs" read --her-heirs--; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in' the Patent Office.

' Signed and sealed this 20th day of June, A. D. 19111;.

Leslie Frazer (Seal) e Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

